bradl

I have mixed feelings about it, but the "Who We Are" plugin has been pretty well received by my community. Only one freakout. It does some things that may not be necessary but it does a pretty good job of surfacing new topic/post content in fairly self-evident way. On the other hand, the stream does a much better job of ferreting out new gallery images and comments, status updates, blog updates, etc. I'm sympathetic to all sides. This is a tough nut to crack!

I've found images are really, really important to folks and they often see them as integral to the conversation rather than as standalone gallery items per se. It takes some forethought and extra steps to think, "well first I'll post this into to a gallery album so I can reference it and then go back to the chit-chat forum and embed the image that goes with the story I want to tell so we can talk about it." I suspect the difference may be the subtle difference between a comment and a reply. You can certainly have a discussion in comments, but forums are set up and people are conditioned to use them as the meeting place, while galleries tend to have more of a museum or portfolio quality. In the gallery people tend to interact with the image and the poster, while in the forum people interact with everyone else in addition to the image and the poster. I would like to see increased visibility across image sources, although I don't personally see the need to specifically integrate attachments into the gallery (although that's certainly one way to accomplish it). I would be happy to simply see per-user image results aggregated in a "show content" view from their profile, honoring whatever permissions exist for wherever the content came from.

Calendar app support?

Using ipsPad made it worse, although it did lead me to retry setting margin to zero one more time— which I thought I'd already tried nine times. {{else}}<div class='ipsGrid_span6' style="margin-left:0;min-height:350px"> Tx.

It would be a kindness to share how, exactly, for those who have not yet managed to find the correct implementation

I was kicking myself for not choosing mb4 when I first created my small family project (I saw "slower" and balked and did not fully consider the emoji implications for my target users) . Later I realized I couldn't have anyway since Dreamhost runs at MySQL 5.1.n So I can reasonably foresee either moving to a different host or eventually upgrading MySQL or many reasons for wanting to convert an existing community instance.

+1 to accessing all aspects of the user account via edit profile.